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Category: Health, Wellbeing, Spirituality

Things I Choose to Leave Behind: Cement for the Sandcastles

1 October 2018 Nicole ConnerHealth, Wellbeing, Spirituality

I have always had an affinity with the ocean. It has a mysterious magnetic pull on my heart. Life, for that moment of time, makes a little more sense when I walk along the shores and listen to the rhythm of the waves. John Dyer remarked, “I love the sea’s sound and the way it…Continue reading Things I Choose to Leave Behind: Cement for the Sandcastles

Things I choose to leave behind: God in my Image

12 September 2018 Nicole ConnerHealth, Wellbeing, Spirituality

“I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them in is smaller than a shoebox now. Most of the time, I feel so ashamed about this that I do not own up to it unless someone else mentions it first.…Continue reading Things I choose to leave behind: God in my Image

Letting Go

28 August 201828 August 2018 Nicole ConnerFamily, Friends & Foe

“Everything I have ever let go of has my claw marks on it.” David Foster Wallace When I first posted this BLOG back in 2015, I was living in Upper Beaconsfield on the outskirts of Melbourne. The serene surrounding did not match my turbulent world at that time. It was a fairly stressful season as I…Continue reading Letting Go

Challenging the Formidable Twins: Laziness and Stereotyping

22 August 2018 Nicole ConnerAnthropology

“Once you label me you negate me.” Soren Kiekegaard   Sometimes they just creep up on you, don’t they? The associates of Prejudice never sleep. A few years ago, I was travelling home on the train after a very long day at work. I was forcing myself to stay awake even though I was exhausted,…Continue reading Challenging the Formidable Twins: Laziness and Stereotyping

A Tyrant called Should

10 August 2018 Nicole ConnerAnthropology

“Stop Shoulding on yourself!” – Albert Ellis   I don’t know how this tyrant found me. Somewhere in the more hazy, early years of my life, it arrived amidst whispers of fears of belonging and identity that are part of human existence.  It settled like a squatter in the shaping of who I was becoming.…Continue reading A Tyrant called Should

Heaven in a Puddle

31 July 2018 Nicole ConnerHealth, Wellbeing, Spirituality

“Every Path has a Puddle!” – George Herbert A few days ago my fur children and I were on our routine jaunt to the beach. It is always at a brisk pace as there is nothing more fun on Planet Earth than for the lab and the pug to plunge into the waves. So they…Continue reading Heaven in a Puddle

In a World of Blind Privilege and Exclusion – Be a Mama Tammye

3 July 2018 Nicole ConnerFamily, Friends & Foe

“I am on this planet, not for myself, but for the betterment of humanity” – Mamma Tammye (Queer Eye SO2, EO1)   It started a few weeks ago. The texts, that is … “Have you started Queer Eye Season 2? OMG!!!” “Ok – STOP what you are doing and watch Queer Eye Season 2, Episode…Continue reading In a World of Blind Privilege and Exclusion – Be a Mama Tammye

We should all BEE concerned!

27 June 2018 Nicole ConnerBooks

“If bees didn’t exist, neither would humans” – Dr Reese Halter I have memories of warm summer days in Northern Germany with my mother handing me a juice with a warning – “Make sure you don’t swallow a bee!” Bees seemed to be buzzing everywhere around the tumbling wildflower and fruit tree garden that surrounded…Continue reading We should all BEE concerned!

The Relationship Glue: Kindness

13 June 2018 Nicole ConnerBooks

“When I was young I admired clever people, now that I am old I admire kind people.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel-   Psychologists John and Julie Gottman spent four decades studying relationships. They set up a research centre at the Washington University and together with a colleague, Robert Levenson, analysed hundreds of relationships (now referred…Continue reading The Relationship Glue: Kindness

Your Life as a Deep Blue Sea

6 June 20186 June 2018 Nicole ConnerFamily, Friends & Foe

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” – Anaïs Nin – In the last month, we have packed up our household, travelled two thousand kilometers south with three cars and two dogs in tow, and then unpacked what we had just painstakingly wrapped…Continue reading Your Life as a Deep Blue Sea

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I wish to acknowledge the Wurundjeri-willam people of the Kulin nation who are the Traditional Owners of the Land on which I live. I want to pay my respect to the Elders of the Kulin Nation, both past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. I acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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